Enterprise Android: Programming Android Database Applications for the Enterprise

Chapter 10

WebData Applications

WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• Creating a Migrate project
• Interfacing with the Migrate REST proxy
• Setting up a device
• Looking at future directions: MigrateClinic

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In this chapter you learn about an implementation of the WebData protocol called Migrate. The discussion walks through a single application — the simple Contacts application introduced in Chapter 5. It then implements the Contacts application on top of the Migrate framework.

Chapter 9 introduced the concept of the WebData API and described Migrate, a generic content provider that can be used as a backend for a wide variety of applications. This chapter looks at what an application that uses such a generic provider might look like. You’ll be writing an application similar to the restfulCachingProviderContacts project from Chapter 5 that uses Migrate instead of its own, private data-synchronization code.

This chapter demonstrates:

• Creating a new project using the Migrate tools
• Converting an existing project to use the Migrate framework
• Installing the Migrate generic content provider on a device and creating an automatically synchronized account to support it
• Running a Migrate-based application
• The future of the Migrate platform

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